I used to read about stocks, options, and futures as a kid. That didn’t help any, since I didn’t have money. So I stepped away from all that for a long time. But sometime last year, the Holy Spirit nudged me to look at this stuff again. I rediscovered options, and found covered-calls, and the […]
Problem statement See the problem statement in this post. This post is about using Python to write a program that implements a shell (REPL) to JIRA’s servers. Implement the REPL I implemented this REPL the same way the C version was made. I opted to not go for the “eval” option (as I did in […]
Problem statement See the problem statement in this post. This post is about using NodeJS to write a program that implements a shell (REPL) to JIRA’s servers. Implement the REPL I implemented this REPL the same way the C version was made. I opted to not go for the “eval” option (as I did in […]
Problem statement See the problem statement in this post. This post is about using the Ruby programming language to write a program that implements a shell (REPL) to JIRA’s servers. Implement the REPL I implemented this REPL the same way the C version was made. I opted to not go for the “eval” option (as […]
Problem statement See the problem statement in the previous post. This post is about using the C programming language to write a program that implements a shell (REPL) to JIRA’s servers. Implement the REPL The basic framework of the “shell” was brought in from this tutorial. The tutorial is well-written and made it easy to […]
Problem statement (rant) I don’t like JIRA’s web-UI. It’s a gigantic program that takes up an unnecessary amount of time to load and function. The initial page-load is slow. Subsequent page loads (as I navigate through the program) are slow. And all of this to serve up a glorified to-do list. It’s rude of the […]
Thinking Forth This book was written in 1984, and is one of the greatest books I’ve read on computer programming practice (as opposed to theory). It’s one the books I wish I’d read 10 years ago. There is a lot in here, and I’m going to have to read it multiple times to truly assimilate […]
I enjoy reading about history, in particular programming history. A few months ago I discovered the Forth programming language, and fell into the rabbit hole. I knew about the Algol branch of programming languages, and the Lisp branch. Forth is a whole portion of programming history that I didn’t know even existed. This language is […]
Problem statement I’ve picked up sailing this summer as a hobby. Its fun, but its wind-dependent and I am not allowed to take a club boat out if the wind-speed is higher than 10 knots. I usually check the weather at home and head to the club if the forecast is < 10 knots. Once […]
TLDR Don’t start your webapp using a SPA javascript framework. Read this and this if you want to hear the same message in a different tone (I freely accept that I’m brusque about this). Read Thoughtbot’s experience on this if you are still unconvinced. Context I used to hang out on internet forums in the […]